The Latest: TV academy change boosts NBC’s Emmy nods total

FILE – This Sept. 18, 2016 file photo shows the main stage during the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. This year’s Emmy Awards will air Sept. 17 on CBS with host Stephen Colbert. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the 69th annual Primetime Emmy nominations announced Thursday in Los Angeles by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (all times local):

1 p.m.

It was an even better Emmy nominations day for NBC at second glance.

The network garnered the most nods for a broadcaster, 64 — four more than the TV academy’s first tally Thursday.

The revision didn’t change the overall rankings, with NBC in third place overall behind HBO with 110 nods and Netflix with 91.

“Saturday Night Live,” which earned 22 nominations to tie with HBO’s “Westworld” for most-recognized show, helped push NBC to the top of the network ranks.

The 11 bids for “This is Us,” NBC’s breakout freshman drama, also helped.

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10:10 a.m.

It looked like the Emmy nominations presentation might have an Oscars moment on its hands Thursday morning.

Instead, a gold envelope that arrived in Shemar Moore’s hands during Thursday morning’s announcement ceremony was to announce co-presenter Anna Chlumsky had been nominated for best supporting actress for her role on “Veep.” It is Chlumsky’s fifth Emmy nomination in a row in the category.

The actors had fun with the moment, with Moore refusing to show Chlumsky the envelope’s contents in an apparent riff on the Academy Awards’ best picture snafu.

Moore says he knew a surprise was coming, but didn’t know it would arrive via an envelope. He says it mirrors another onstage moment for him. Morore says, “I mean the last time I did something like that for anybody, I gave Susan Lucci her first Emmy after 19 tries and they gave her a five minute standing ovation.”

Chlumsky says she’s skeptical she’ll be nominated every year, but is honored to receive a nod for the fifth year in row.

She is competing against three “Saturday Night Live” actresses: Vanessa Bayer, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon.

Chlumsky says about this year’s comedy nominees, which includes co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus for best comedy actress: “It’s an embarrassment of riches, as it feels like every year, but I think they got a lot right this year.”

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9:30 a.m.

Chance the Rapper, Common, Snoop Dogg and LL Cool J are among the musicians nominated for Emmy Awards this year.

Chance the Rapper, who won three Grammys this year, is nominated for outstanding original music and lyrics for “Last Christmas” from “Saturday Night Live.” Common, a Grammy and Oscar winner, is nominated in the same category for “Letter to the Free,” a song from Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th.”

Snoop Dogg, who has never won a Grammy, shares a nomination with Martha Stewart for outstanding host for a reality or reality-competition program for their VH1 show, “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party.” LL Cool J earned a nomination for outstanding structured reality program as a producer of Spike TV’s “Lip Sync Battle.”

The Emmy nominations for the best limited television series have been announced. The nominees are: “Big Little Lies”; “Fargo”; “Feud: Bette and Joan”; “Genius”; “The Night Of”.

“Feud,” a fictionalized account of the rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis that aired on FX, was one of Thursday’s top-nominated shows. Jessica Lange, who portrayed Crawford, and Susan Sarandon, who played Davis, were each nominated for best actress in a limited series or movie.

Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon were also nominated in the acting category for HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” Ewan McGregor was nominated in the best actor category for “Fargo,” while Riz Ahmed and John Turturro were nominated for HBO’s “The Night Of.”

The Emmy Awards will be presented Sept. 17 during a live ceremony hosted by Stephen Colbert on CBS.

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8:50 a.m.

“Saturday Night Live” and the sci-fi drama “Westworld” are at the top of the Emmy nominations with 22 bids each.

The long-running “SNL” received a wealth of awards for its cast, hosts and guest stars, including one to Alec Baldwin for his recurring portrayal of President Donald Trump.

Other leading nominees announced Thursday in Los Angeles include “Feud: Bette and Joan” and “Stranger Things” with 18 nominations; “Veep” with 17 bids, and “Big Little Lies” and “Fargo” with 16 nominations each.

Breakout network drama “This is Us” received 11 nods, including the first best-drama series for a broadcast network show since “The Good Wife” in 2011.

HBO leads all networks with 110 nominations, followed by Netflix with 91 and NBC with 60.

The Emmys will air Sept. 17 on CBS.

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8:45 a.m.

The Emmy nominations for the top television drama and comedy series have been announced.